Category Archives: About Tom

No Games Book Coming Spring 2024!

Super excited to announced I’ve signed a contract with Routledge Press to publish the story of the No Games Chicago campaign! The story has never been told. In fact, we were writen out of the record four different times over the years since the campaign was fought in 2009. Sign up for news and – eventually – ge the book at https://nogameschicagobook.com. Coming Spring 2024.

Walk Through Our Garden

It just takes a few minutes! From August of 2023.

Tresser Garden Walk Through 2023

Merle and Tom Tresser have small garden in Lincoln Park, Chicago about the size of a bowling all alley (plus the back yard). Here is a tour from a beaytiful August day in 2023. The rendition of “Spring” from “The Four Seasons” by Vivaldi is by The Sounds of Music – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LiztfE1X7E.

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Tom Talks About Performing Shakespeare

A million years ago I co-founded the Free Shakespeare Company with Frank Farrell and became its Managing Director. I acted in some 20 plays and projects with them and recently found myself giving presentations on performing Shakespeare! It was a blast to revisit the subject!

“Performing Shakespeare” w. Tom Tresser

Tom Tresser (www.tresser.com) gave this presentation on performing Shakespeare to the 55 . Erie Book Club on March 5, 2022. Reach Tom at tom@tresser.com. (1 hour, 18 min) Simple URL for this video = www.tinyurl.com/Tresser-Performing-Shake

1 hour, 23 min
Good grief – that was me in 1983!